Then pound again, and they will be tossed on their backs and die. To kill them, you have to pound through a grate that will flip you onto the other side of the (flat) planet and wait for it to crawl onto the grate. The Pupdozers have the several-pointed star-like Ground Pound symbol on their bellies.

Glamdozer, the Queen Mook of the Pupdozers ◊, is defeated both with a game mechanic and an enemy kill strategy.

To defeat Megahammer, you have to spit Bullet Bills at the glass domes on its front and back. The level before the fight focuses on Yoshi spitting Bullet Bills at glass cages to continue through the level. Digga-Leg is defeated by drilling through the planet and breaking the glass cage on his bottom half. The Spin Drill is activated by a spin and digs through planets.

Digga-Leg, Megaleg's relative, is in a level introducing the Spin Drill powerup.

Antepiece: Nearly every boss level features a game mechanic or enemies with unique defeat strategies (if the boss is a King Mook) that will be used to defeat the boss at the end of the level.

Interestingly, though, he reverts to previous appearances if your 'balance' dips back below what it took to get him them.

And Your Reward Is Clothes: The Banktoad gets new clothes/items when you give him enough Star Bits.

Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: The final part of the final boss takes place in, apparently, the middle of a black hole, which has an enormous vortex that is constantly Sucking-In Lines.

Accordion to Most Sailors: The music for Starshine Beach Galaxy, the game's obligatory Palmtree Panic level, includes an accordion in its instrumentation.

Yoshi can spit several enemies out after eating them as an attack and to break glass cages, such as Spinies and Bullet Bills.

Star Bits, which can either be fired at enemies to stun them, or at Lumas to feed them.

2❝: Several areas of the game, most notably, the Rightside Down and Upside Dizzy Galaxies, and an unusual case in Honeybloom Galaxy, which involves traveling around a cube-shaped planet, but being locked in 2D after every turn of a corner.

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